From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Erik the Red" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Cannot open termcap database file for emacs? Date: 30 Jul 2005 10:48:31 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1122745711.408528.87540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122745972 2800 80.91.229.2 (30 Jul 2005 17:52:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 19:52:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyvVr-0006PA-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:52:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyvYP-00065l-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:55:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.73.159.105 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1122745716 721 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2005 17:48:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:48:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.73.159.105; posting-account=ExIrZwwAAABUDX4m_ostVdfShzxSMyav Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132763 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28287 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28287 I'm using Ubuntu Hoary. I tried to install emacs via source. emacs is definitely installed because a man page comes up when I type "man emacs". However, if I try to run emacs, it gives me this error message in bash: emacs: Cannot open termcap database file Why can't I run emacs?